UVF® Universal Vacuum Filter Disc Technology
High Performance Solid Liquid Separation
The Universal Vacuum Filter UVF® – features fundamental advancements in continuous rotary vacuum disc filtration technology for solid liquid separation of mineral concentrates and tailings dewatering.
FM Technologies’ proprietary UVF® vacuum disc filtration equipment is proven to dramatically increase production rates, produce thicker dryer filter cake, and significantly lower CAPEX, OPEX, and power consumption.
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UVF® Outperforms All Other Rotary Vacuum Disc Filters
Minerals Tailings
Chemical Processes
Minerals Concentrates
Industrial Processes
Energy Production
Industrial Wastewater
Food/Bioproducts
And More…
Better separation.
Better performance.
Better technology.
UVF® Produces Thicker Dryer Filter Cake
Thick dry filter cake solids of Iron Ore tailings produced by UVF® Vacuum Filter disc sectors.
UVF® Vacuum Filter disc sectors yield thicker dryer filter cake solids of Iron Ore Concentrate.
UVF® for Chemical Processes form a thicker dryer filter cake on Universal Vacuum Filter disc sectors.
Universal Rotary Vacuum Disc Filter – UVF® Technology
UVF® Technology for Solid Liquid Separation
The all new, patented design of the UVF® rotary vacuum disc filter utilizes proprietary filter media designed to optimize solid liquid separation by incorporating hydrophilic-hydrophobic multi-capillary flow paths.
Our vacuum disc filter media, combined with proprietary design innovations, ensures the highest and most efficient throughput of any vacuum disc filter – outperforming both cloth and ceramic. In many cases UVF® provides significant advantages over other separation technologies such as filter presses.
Most Effective Technology for Mineral Concentrates and Tailings Dewatering
Focusing on mineral concentrate and tailings dewatering, the proprietary design of the UVF® filter media provides very high throughput rates, low filter cake moistures and enables backwashing at up to 10Bar (145 PSI) where required. This ensures excellent solid liquid filtration rates and long filter disc sector life.
UVF® vacuum filter disc field testing of mineral concentrates, such as iron ore concentrate, have demonstrated throughput rates exceeding 3 to 10 times that of other separation technologies. For example, many competitive technologies advertise 1-1.5 mtph/m2 whereas the UVF® filter has achieved in excess of 4 to 10 mtph/m2.
Thicker Dryer Filter Cake
FM Technologies’ UVF® vacuum filter disc media combined with our proprietary cake removal system, allows for direct scraping of the filter media – enabling filter cake up to 3 inches (8cm) thick to be effectively discharged.
Rotational speeds of the filter disc sectors are adjustable from less than one rpm to greater than ten rpm – providing the operator with a wide range of parameters to ensure the most efficient production of thicker, dryer filter cake.
Lower Capital Expense and Lifetime Operating Cost
Comparative CAPEX studies performed by a Global Engineering Consulting firm experienced with iron ore filtration plants have shown that a 50% or greater reduction in equipment and installation costs is achieved using UVF® Technology versus other solid liquid separation technology.
Significant OPEX savings are realized using UVF® Technology which delivers the highest production rate per unit filter area, produces thicker, dryer filter cakes, provides longer vacuum disc filter sector life, eliminates additional air requirements via the removal of a snap-blow cake discharge, and utilizes a vacuum system with significantly lower power consumption.
HIGHEST THROUGHPUT PER UNIT FILTER AREA
MOST COST EFFECTIVE PRODUCTION… BY FAR!!!
SUBSTANTIALLY MORE EFFICIENT FILTRATION
UTILIZES MOST EFFECTIVE DISC RPM RANGE
UVF® ACCOMMODATES NEW PATENTED HIGHEST PERFORMANCE FILTER MEDIA
MOST ADAPTABLE & VERSATILE VACUUM FILTER ON EARTH
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Testing Services
Test centers are available in both North and South America
UVF® LABORATORY / BENCH TESTING
UVF® PILOT FILTER TESTING
Test centers are available in both North and South America.
Welcome to FM Technologies
FM Technologies is a SEPARATION AND FILTRATION TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION that DEVOTES >95% OF ITS RESOURCES to developing the world’s highest performance filtration and separation technology. FM TECHNOLOGIES core emphasis is on the development of innovative filtration technology – this is in contrast to many large companies where the emphasis is on sales of existing technology and lack focus on product innovation.
FM Technologies is based in the USA with testing and manufacturing in both North and South America.